The crude oil production from the newly acquired 25 % interest in the Roncador oil field in Brazil will be lifted and transported by shuttle tankers. Equinor has now entered into time charter contracts for two newbuilt shuttle tanker with the shipowner Knutsen NYK Offshore Tankers AS (Knutsen). The tankers will be built at Hyundai Heavy Industries in South Korea.

Independent global completions service company Tendeka has appointed Davor Saric as its new Technology Director to help deliver the company’s next generation of disruptive technologies.

During the WindEnergy 2018 fair in Hamburg, Safeway BV based in Dordrecht, the Netherlands, introduced its third type of high-tech ‘motion-compensated’ walkway under the name ‘Safeway Albatross’. Safeway already has two types of active walk-to-work systems on the market, namely the ‘Safeway Seagull’ and the recently added ‘Safeway Osprey’.

Delmar Systems, Inc. has been awarded the mooring contract to provide engineering design services, project management, mooring equipment, and mooring installation services for the Development Driller III at ExxonMobil’s locations offshore Equatorial Guinea.

Porto do Açu Operações signed a Cooperation Agreement with the Port of Houston in the first day of Rio Oil & Gas 2018. The partnership will pave the way for commercial sinergy between the largest port-industrial-energy complex in Latin America and the leading U.S. port in terms of imports and export tonnage.

Damen and HST sign contract for second FCS 2710 at WindEnergy Hamburg

O&M managers need to more actively and closely monitor the health of turbine blades at newer wind farms under five years of age, with the average of 7 repairs required per turbine significantly exceeding that of the 2.2 repairs for older wind farms. This is according to leading blade repair and inspection specialist Altitec, which has launched its 2018 Blade Repair Atlas, which provides a detailed breakdown of its operations across the UK, Europe and further afield.

Total announces a major gas discovery on the Glendronach prospect, located offshore U.K. West of Shetland. The well was drilled to a final depth of 4,312 meters and encountered a gas column of 42 meters of net pay in a high quality Lower Cretaceous reservoir.

On 25 September, a milestone was achieved in the large-scale investment in the new test facility at Trelleborg’s offshore operation in Skelmersdale, England, as the first of two 185 ton hyperbaric pressure vessels arrived on site.

Leading engineering consultancy BMT and subsea technology company Sonardyne International Ltd. have signed an agreement to provide advanced integrated marine integrity monitoring solutions to the oil and gas industry.

Danos announces the hiring of two new employees to oversee scaffolding operations within the organization: Clay Daugherty and John Moberly. Collectively, the two have 47 years of industry experience and will share management responsibilities of the company’s growing scaffolding business.

Pioneering change, improving efficiencies, super basins and successful collaborations are among the powerful topics fueling the 16th Women's Global Leadership Conference (WGLC) in Energy Oct. 29-30 in Houston.

DNV GL Noble Denton marine services has released a new edition of the ST-N001 Marine operations and marine warranty standard, the industry’s most comprehensive standard for the warranty approval of marine operations, covering all different asset and operation types.

Equinor is signing collaboration agreements with Aker Solutions and TechnipFMC for subsea equipment and services on the Norwegian continental shelf (NCS) and internationally.

Montrose Port, a leading support and service hub for the energy industry, has broadened its services to the north east energy industry by announcing its latest tenant, behavioral safety and culture change specialists, Ethos Empowerment.

Kongsberg Digital has revealed the ground-breaking new K-Sim Tactical Boat Handling and Firing Simulator solution at its UC 2018 Maritime Simulation User Conference in Tromsø, Norway, (September 25-27).